"Stand with the community who are appalled by the drug and alcohol-fuelled assaults across our city and across our state, or side with the drunken and drug-addicted thugs responsible for those attacks. And madam speaker, sadly he chose the side of the thugs."

Shooters MP Robert Borsak says his party will support the amendment, because it is worried the Government's laws will create a nanny state.

"I think they just go too far," he said.

The Greens' David Shoebridge says his party will also vote for the change, which he describes as the lesser of two evils.

"Labor's proposals do less damage to the judicial system than the Government's," he said.